tar problem

[Guest_imported]

HI all:

I'm trying to tar a file to a tape drive on another machine, but I got a error message says the Sarah not found. Please help
Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

'The Sarah not found'?

Can you give a few more details about what you did or were trying to do? Cheers.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi:
I use the Sarah as the hostname for one of my machine that has tape drive on it.

I can't using tar command to do a remote backup:
this is what I did,
tar -cvf sarah:/dev/rmt/2m /home/sarah
then I got a error message: sarah is not find.

Since fbackup command is only can be used by root, is there another command I can use
for remote backup as a user?

Thanks

 

[myheadsashed]

What command did you use...?
$tar Sarah

 

[unixqueen]

I'm pretty sure that you can't create a tar direct to a tape drive on another machine. If you have the space on this box, create the tar here, ftp the file to Sarah, and tar to the tape drive from Sarah.

Clare

 

[patel]

Clare is absoultly right you can't do remote tar.

Patel